Willabd comey



(No Model.)

W. OOMEY.

V SHOE. No. 250,648. Patented Dec.13,1881.

U Un

' UNITED 4`STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WILLARD COMEY, OF WESTBOROUGH, MASS., ASSIGNOR TO THE IMPROVED SOLESEWING MACHINE COMPANY, OF THE STATE OF MAINE.

SHOE.

PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,648, dated December13, 18,81. Application filed June 29, 1881. (No model.)

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLARD GoMEY, of Westborough, in the county ofVorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new anduseful Improved Shoe, of which the following is a full, clear, concise,and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure l is a cross-section across the foot part of a shoeembodying my invention. Figs. 2 and 8 are cross-Sections of inner solessuch as are used in the man ufacture of my improved shoe; and Fig. 4 isa plan of that kind of inner sole shown in Fig. 3.

The object of my invention is to produce a shoe (or the like, for myinvention is, of course, applicable to boots and shoes) which can besewed by machinery and yet possess every advantage of the well-knownhand-sewed shoe.

The shoe shown iu Fig. 1 is manufacturcd as follows: The inner sole, A,is first channeled (preferably as shown in Figs. 3 and 4) on the sidewhich comesnext the foot in the finished shoe. This channeled inner soleis then placed upon the last with the channel next the sole of the last,and the upper B then las'ted in the usual way. The welt or middle sole,D, is then sewed -to the upper B and inner sole, A, by any suitablesewing-machine, (too well known to need description here,) care beingtaken to lay the threads in the channel of the inner sole, so that theycan be covered by the lip a of that channel.

In practice I find it convenient to channel the inner sole, as shown inFigs. 3 and 4, and to fold back the lip a of that channel close upon theinner surface of the inner sole, this being readily done withoutpuckering the lip When the channel does not extend around the toe orheel, as in Fig. 4. It is not customary to sew around the heel part ofthe inner sole, as the nails which attach theheel to the shoe makesewing unnecessary at that part of the inner sole.Havingthusattachedtogether theupper, inner sole, and Welt or middlesole, the outer sole, F, is applied and secured by sewing to the welt ormiddle sole, as shown at d d in Fig. 1, the outersole being alsochanneled, as shown, and the threads on the bottom of the outer solelying in that channel and being covered by the lip.

I am aware of Letters Patent No. 140,258 of 1873, for a turned shoe, inwhich the upper and welt are sewed to a sole which is inside the shoewhen the upper and Welt are sewed to the sole; but that sole is theouter sole and not the inner sole, and the shoe so made is wholly unlikemy improved shoe.

I am also aware of Letters Patent No. 179,145, of 1876, in which anouter sole and Welt are used, as in my shoe; but iu that shoe the mainstitches pass through the outer-sole welt, upper, and inner sole, andthe welt is sewed to the outer sole before they are connected with theupper and inner sole.

I am also aware of English Patent No. 2,750 of 1805, which shows a shoein which the parts are connected by thread pegs and not by stitches, asin my shoe.

I am also aware of English Patent No. 1,240 of 1867, and of the UnitedStates Patent No. 47,010, of 1865, both ot? which show shoes in whichthe parts are connected as in my shoe, with the exception that thestitches extend entirely through the parts sewed together and passthrough the grain as well as through the flesh parts of the soles. Thisexception constitutes a very material difference between these shoes andmy shoe, in which the inner sole is held to the upper and welt and theouter sole is held to the welt by stitches which pass through the fieshparts only of the soles, thereby giving the fiexibility and all theother good qualities of a hand-sewed shoe.

What I claim as my invention is The improved shoe above described,composed of the inner sole, A, channeled on the grain side, the upper B,the welt or middle sole, D, and the outer sole, F, the weltor middlesole, upper, and inner sole being connected by stitches passing throughthe welt and upper and through the flesh part only of the inner sole,the lip of the channel on the grainsurface of the inner sole lying overthe loops of the stitches which connect the welt, upper, and inner sole,and the outer sole being connected with the weltbya second line ofstitches, which pass through the flesh part only of the outer sole, thelip of the channel on the grainsurface of the outer sole lying on theloops of the stitches which connect the welt and outer sole.

, WILLARD COMEY. Witnesses WM. ZITTEL, W. A. COPELAND.

IOO

